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  • Chapter 33 - Implications of disasters for global mental health
  • from Section 6 - Human resources and capacity building
  • Edited by Samuel O. Okpaku
  • Book: Essentials of Global Mental Health
  • Published online: 05 March 2014
  • Print publication: 27 February 2014, pp 316-325
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    Summary

    The phenomena of child soldiers can be found manifesting in situations of horizontal inequalities between groups with clearly defined cultural or ethnic identities. In war and violent conflict, children are traumatized by such common experiences as frequent shelling, bombing, helicopter strafing, round-ups, cordon-off and search operations, deaths, injury, destruction, mass arrests, detention, shootings, grenade explosions, and landmines. The impact of war on their growing minds, and the resulting traumatization and brutalization, is decisive in making them more likely to become child soldiers. Apart from death and injury, the recruitment of children becomes even more abhorrent when one sees the psychological consequences. Reintegration of the former child soldiers can be challenging. Some children have no families; either they have fled the country or they have been killed in the war. Child soldiers often face psychological and social problems.